"Today, I will sacrifice the spirit girl to the king of the mountain, but please protect the peace of the party! Wind and rain! ”

"Today, I will sacrifice the spirit girl to the king of the mountain, but please protect the peace of the party! Wind and rain! ”

Two thousand five hundred and forty-three years ago.

Junshan.

It was a lush meadow, and a man in a black robe and a simple wooden mask was looking up to the sky and chanting some kind of ritual.

Behind him, a group of poorly dressed villagers threw themselves on the ground, chanting loudly.

On a large tree in front of her, a girl about five or six years old was tied up.

The girl had a melon seed face, eyes like almonds, and small and lovely lips, but at the moment her face was filled with fear and misery, and she cried in a low voice:

"Daddy, mother, why are you kidnapping me? Help me! ”

The girl's voice was miserable, obviously she had been tied up for a long time, and her voice was a little hoarse.

Among the kneeling villagers was a man and a woman, their bodies trembling violently, the man with his head on the ground and his hands over his ears, afraid to listen to the girl's screams.

The woman burst into tears, and finally couldn't help but stand up: "Ahhe! ”

But he was grabbed by the man, and his eyes were red and he glared at his wife: "Are you crazy?!" ”

The woman cried, "That's our daughter! How could you watch her being devoured by a big worm! ”

When the people around heard the woman's words, their faces suddenly changed, and many people pointed at the woman angrily: "Shut up, you dare to be disrespectful to the mountain king!" If you anger the king of the mountains and condemn us, all the people in the village will be harmed by you! ”

The man saw that the crowd around him was excited, and the village chief who was presiding over the sacrifice in front also looked at him sternly, and he slapped the woman's face and scolded angrily:

"Ah He can be chosen by the Mountain King, that is her blessing! It is also a blessing for our family! When she enters the mouth of the mountain king, she will turn into a mountain spirit to protect our village, and you will not be so stupid again,

If you anger the mountain king, how can there be a peaceful day in the village! ”

The corners of the woman's mouth were bleeding from the beating, but after listening to her husband's words, she also quieted down, and just looked at her daughter who was tied to a tree in front of her.

"Mother, mother, save me!"

When the girl saw her mother looking at her, she cried and pleaded louder.

But the woman looked away, stopped looking at her, and fell to her knees again, like her husband and the other villagers.

At this time, not far behind the big tree, in a deep cave, a giant tiger with white eyes slowly stepped out of the hole, and its copper bell-like eyes looked at the girl tied to the tree.

The giant tiger opened its bloody mouth and let out an earth-shattering tiger roar, startling the birds and beasts in the mountains and forests.

The girl was tied, but her head could move, and when she heard the terrible roar of the tiger, her whole body trembled, and she slowly turned her head to see the huge tiger.

She was so frightened that her face turned pale, her mouth was deflated, and she began to cry.

"Daddy, mother, I don't want to be eaten by Shanjun, save me!!"

But her father and mother lay down among the villagers, no longer looking up, but just chanted along with the village chief who presided over the sacrificial ceremony:

"Today, I will sacrifice the spirit girl to the king of the mountain, but please protect the peace of the party! Wind and rain! ”

The tiger slowly walked out of the cave, getting closer and closer to the little girl, and in the roar of the tiger and the cry of the girl, the village's sacrifice also came to its climax.

The village chief took off his mask and showed an old face.

When the girl saw the old village chief, she hurriedly shouted: "Grandpa, grandpa, please save me, didn't you say that you were going to take me up the mountain to pick fruits and eat today?" Grandfather! Woooooooo ”

The old village chief, who was the girl's grandfather, coaxed her to take her up the mountain to pick fruit to eat this morning, and when he came to the cave of the mountain king, he suddenly tied the girl to a tree, thus starting the annual sacrifice.

The village is often attacked by the mountain king, not to mention the cattle, sheep, chickens and ducks, and even the people are often dragged away.

Please come to the master for guidance, Fang knows that the mountain monarch is a mountain god, and he needs to sacrifice a child to the mountain monarch every year, so that the mountain monarch will not only not attack the village again, but also bless the village with good weather within a year.

As a result, the village has a tradition of offering sacrifices to the mountain lord every year.

This year marks the third year.

In the first two years, after the sacrifice to the mountain king, the mountain king would indeed be quiet for a while, but he would still attack the village soon after.

The villagers discussed it and decided that Shanjun was not satisfied with the first two "tributes", so this year they chose the most clever and well-behaved girl, Ahe.

Only then did the villagers feel at ease and conclude that the mountain monarch would be extremely satisfied with this "tribute".

At this time, hearing the girl's cry, the village chief said to his granddaughter kindly:

"Ahe, you are the most well-behaved and sensible child in the village, be good, listen to grandpa's words, after the mountain monarch makes you become a mountain spirit, remember to protect the safety of the village, and your father and I will not forget to worship you."

"Grandpa, Daddy, Mother......"

Hearing the words of the village, the girl suddenly stopped struggling, and looked at her parents, who were kneeling on the ground in the crowd, and did not want to look at her again, she closed her eyes, and the face of the little melon seed was full of despair.

Oh!!

The tiger's roar got closer and closer, and the tiger finally walked up to the girl and circled around her.

"Shanjun is satisfied, Shanjun is very satisfied!"

Seeing this, the villagers had excited expressions on their faces.

"Today, I will sacrifice the spirit girl to the king of the mountain, but please protect the peace of the party! Wind and rain! ”

Under the leadership of the village chief, the sacrificial chanting became louder and louder.

Suddenly, the tiger turned his head to look at these people who were singing loudly, roared wildly, and jumped up, knocking the village chief who was standing at the front to the ground!

"Ahh

In the midst of the screams, the village chief was bitten by a tiger and his throat was broken, and his body convulsed before he lost his breath.

The crowd was stunned for a moment, and the tiger bit the village chief to death, and pounced on the villagers without stopping.

"Ahh

"Why is Shanjun like this? Yes!! ”

The villagers fled in panic, and the fast ones escaped from the meadow first, burrowed into the mountain forest, and the slow runners were pounced down by the tiger and killed on the spot.

Ahe's father couldn't run and was the second to be pounced on by the tiger.

Her mother-in-law rushed to Aho with all her might, untying the ropes that bound her.

"Mother!"

The little girl cried and hugged her mother.

"Ahho, I'm sorry, we just want to live!"

However, when the mother had said this, she rushed to the tiger with her in her arms, and then threw her in front of the tiger, and cried out loudly:

"Ask the mountain king to calm his anger, the sacrifice is here!"

The tiger lifted its blood-soaked muzzle from a villager's body and lunged at the screaming woman, knocking her down and biting her neck!

Yes!!

A terrible scream sounded, and blood flowed all over the lush meadow, merging into a small red river, which slowly flowed to Ahe's feet.

At this time, there were no living people in the meadow.

"Daddy, mother, woo woo woo ......"

The little girl covered her mouth, her body trembled, but she couldn't stop crying.

The tiger looked at the crying Ahe, shook off the blood-stained fur, and let out another tiger roar, opened its bloody mouth, and pounced on her.

The next moment, the sword light flashed.

The tiger was cut in two in the air.

A Taoist priest wearing a white Taoist robe and holding a fairy sword appeared in front of the girl, he looked at the blood and mess all over the ground, shook his head slightly, and sighed:

"The Taoist priest passed by here, but he didn't want to witness such a stupid and cruel thing, such a cause and effect, the Taoist priest should not have been contaminated, but the Taoist heart was not strong, and the dust was not broken, so it was just that."

The Taoist priest sighed for a while, leaned down and looked at the little girl:

"What's your name?"

The little girl's little face was stained with blood and tears, her expression was blank, and she said in a daze: "Ah, Ah." ”

The Taoist priest asked again: "I am the seventeenth generation head of the Shushan Sword Sect, are you willing to go to Shushan with me?" ”

The girl was dazed, but nodded slightly.

The Taoist priest looked at the miserable situation around him, sighed again, and asked the girl:

"I have a way to make you forget the sufferings of the world, but from now on you will become a person without roots and without roots.

If he wants to find his roots one day, unless the world has undergone great changes and the aura is no longer there, there can be a glimmer of hope......

So, would you like to? ”

The girl looked around, the bodies of her father, mother, and grandfather, and the towering tree that had tied her in the distance, and tears flowed again.

"I do."